Chapter 657: Sea battle

Although Wallace was the owner of the Scottish ship, but since the family stood correct in 1485, Wallace, who was only 19 years old, entered the English navy. -79-Fiction Net-Although they usually run transportation, they entered the naval sequence in wartime, but after 20 years, Sir Wallace, 39, is also very familiar with naval warfare.

The French's naval warfare idea is a hard bridge and a hard horse ground collision, it is completely the sea version of the knight charge. The problem is that knights on land are faster than infantry and can impact enemy formations. But at sea, your ship is not faster than others. How can you ensure that it will hit the enemy ship?

The English were much older, and under the command of Wallace, 54 large English ships were scattered. Moreover, all rushed to the west first, instead of facing the French fleet on the south ...

Why is this? Because the British want to "grab the wind" ...

The so-called "strong wind" means to seize the upper wind. The warships of this era are all sailing ships, which mainly rely on wind to drive ships. When the wind is down, the speed is naturally faster.

At the same time, after occupying the upper lip, the sailing boat can not only move faster, but also help to shoot. Of course, the so-called ‘shoot’ strike at this time did not refer to the ‘shoot’ strike of the artillery but the ‘shoot’ strike of the bow and arrow. Bows and arrows fly slowly and are more affected by wind. Therefore, seizing the upper hand is very useful for long-range strikes against the enemy.

The 54 main battleships, under the attention of the French, collectively turned to the west, then, by the west wind, rushed to the southeast ...

"No, transport fleet!"

The French commander-in-chief, Valjeri, who originally commanded more than one hundred main battleships and wanted to collide with the British fleet, was shocked when he saw the direction of the English main fleet. Because the direction of the main battleships in England is exactly where the French medium-sized transport ships are most concentrated ... There, the Kirk sailboats are loaded with war horses, artillery and other heavy supplies, which is very important ...

So Earl Valjeri ordered loudly:

"Turn to the left! Backward! The rear team becomes the front team! Be sure to stop the English bandits!"

Then, the herding soldiers on the ship shouted their voices and sang folk songs to convey the order of Count Valjeri ...

After a while, the order was communicated to the last French warship. Then, the French warship formation began to turn awkwardly backwards and sailed south, intending to stop the British warships rushing towards the transport fleet.

At this time, some people in the transport fleet were also panicked. Seeing the main force of the British warships rushing to the transport ship cluster, the personnel on the French transport ship were a little panicked. However, in the vast sea, they did not dare to run 'chaoticly'. After all, it is too far away from the French mainland. Even if you want to retreat to escape, it is too late.

The front is closer to the land of England, but Sir Wallace placed all the remaining forty small and medium-sized warships in the northeast direction, staring at the transport ships with a staring eye. If any ship dared to forcibly lean against the land of England, go up and fight ...

These transport ships lack guard protection, because the French put most of the soldiers on the 100 warships. And those transport ships lacked combat power. Therefore, even if they encounter small and medium-sized English warships, these transport ships may not be able to fight.

General Valjeri, the French commander, seemed to have thought of this, so he divided 20 warships to attack the formation of small and medium warships in England to open a passage. After all, the main purpose of the French was to cross the sea by the fleet, not to fight the sea.

It is a pity that those small and medium-sized English warships are light and flexible boats. In the face of the main French warship that rushed over, I was not in a hurry. Under the command of the commanders, these small and medium-sized English warships took advantage of the “small ship to turn around” and the 20 French warships to make a circle on the sea. But no matter how they went around, those small and medium-sized English warships did not give way to the land of England. Because, Sir Wallace had issued an order-never allow a French transport ship to dock, otherwise the captain will be disposed of by military law ...

As a last resort, the captains of these small and medium-sized English warships played the flexible characteristics of small and medium-sized ships, and circled with the French warships on the sea, but they refused to give way.

The French warships are also miserable. These 20 ships are large ships of two to three hundred tons. It is much more difficult to turn around than the English boats. Therefore, playing around with England boats is really not what they are good at. Therefore, no matter how they rushed, they couldn't catch those English boats and could not solve their opponents by side-by-side battle.

In desperation, the French captains had to order the crossbowmen on the ship to use the crossbows to "shoot" at the English sailors on the circling English boats.

When navigating at sea, the stability of the ship is too poor. Those French crossbowmen, clearly aimed at the Englishmen on the passing English boat, but as the hull swayed left and right, they hit the gray machine ...

When it comes to long-range attacks, who are the Englishmen afraid of? So, the sailors who were good at ‘shooting’ arrows on the English warships took out their English longbows and long arrows and started to fight back ...

It ’s very difficult to think about ‘fine’ aiming at the enemy and ‘shooting’ on the turbulent ship. Therefore, the English people very pragmatically did not aim at the "shoot" strike, but followed the feeling. Anyway, it would be enough to throw an arrow on the deck of a French warship, not to mention not aiming. The only requirement is to be fast to form a dense arrow rain ...

This trick really worked. Compared with the French 'crossbowman's flat' shooting 'aim, this quick' shooting 'of throwing' shot 'and' **** 'qualities, although the hit rate is not high, can be beaten in the dense arrow rain. The French warships were already crowded on the deck. In the face of the dense arrow rain, in addition to the knights wearing plate armor, the sailors who did not wear plate armor were suffering ...

"Ah, I hit the arrow!" A sailor who was 'fucking' the sail was unfortunately 'shot' by the arrow of the English sailor and fell off the mast.

The French commander quickly sent soldiers to rescue, but there were more than one or two sailors. Many sailors and French soldiers who did not wear a full set of plate armor suffered. The difference is, where does the body hit the arrow ...

If the vital part hits the arrow, it's done. If the arrow is in the general part, pull out the arrow and bandage it, it may be good. However, at the level of the French army ’s treatment in this era, even the fabrics used to wrap up the wounds of the soldiers were dark, and they were pulled casually. Can the arrow shooter survive in the end?

There are also bad luck crossbows in England. After all, although the French are not very good at using crossbows on ships, they are lucky and can always catch a bad luck crossbow. But overall, the British casualties are much less than the French ...

This boat is entangled with the French warship, and the main battleship over there is also unambiguous ...

When the 80 main ships of the French fleet were in front of the French transport fleet ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Under the command of Sir Wallace, the British army suddenly turned the rudder and no longer directly impacted the French transport fleet, but Turn northeast ...

In fact, this was just Wallace's way of evading the main force of the French fleet, but French commander Valjeri was terrified. Because, in the northeast direction, there are 20 French warships fighting against English boats ...

As a result, General Valjeri immediately dropped the speedboat from the ship and rushed them to the northeast direction, so that the 20 French warships would be withdrawn, so as not to be annihilated by 54 British warships.

But in fact, Sir Wallace had no intention of besieging the 20 French warships that had left this formation. While "passing by" with the French main fleet, the British main battle ship fired ten thousand arrows on the side, attacked the French army in a "wave", and took away many French sailors and soldiers.

But then, when he saw that the French warship had the intention to rush up to take the side battle, Wallace took 54 British main battleships, and ran again ...

These ships turned their rudders again, headed northwest, and then seized the upper edge of the wind ... In short, Wallace's strategy was to fight in the end, not just head on ...